relative clause

The utility of the relative clause test is, however, limited.

These are least likely to be classified as relative clauses.

Relative clauses can come before or after a head, with the difference only being in emphasis.

It is more frequently a temporal than a relative clause.

The words "not everywhere defined", however, form a relative clause.

Relative clauses always come after the substantive that they modify.

In (5), the head is found in some position inside the relative clause.

However many languages do not distinguish the two types of relative clause in this way.

Sometimes, heads to which relative clauses refer can be repeated.

Use the sentence in brackets to make a relative clause (Type 2).

Please see the table below for examples that demonstrate the use of relative clauses.

Used to identify a noun to be further identified in a relative clause.

Who and whom can also be used to form free relative clauses (those with no antecedent).

Questions with "who, what, how many, which, when" are constructed as direct relative clauses.

B In both types of relative clause we use who for people and which for things.

It is often used in appositional phrases such as relative clauses.

In Georgian, there are two strategies for forming relative clauses.

Restrictive relative clauses are linked to the word that proceeds it.

Here which Jack built is a relative clause modifying the noun house.

A nominal phrase will often have a relative clause.

In German, all relative clauses are marked with a comma.

A free relative clause, on the other hand, does not have an explicit antecedent external to itself.

There are two kinds of relative clauses in Irish: direct and indirect.

A complex sentence is one clause with a relative clause.

Relative clauses in Crow are complex and subject to theoretical debates.